beta version of next fai release available

[Michael Gellman]

I've tried the new version of FAI without many problems.

My only comment would be with respect to the /.nocolorlogo file. It
would be nice if there was an option in make-fai-nfsroot.conf that said
whether or not to generate the file --- otherwise, I have to manually
create the file every time I rebuild the nfs root.

Other than that, the upgrade went smoothly.

Great work!

Mike

 Fri, 2004-07-09 at 15:38, Thomas Lange wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> on http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download/developers there's
> the new beata version of the next fai release available. Please have a
> look at it and reports major problems within one week. Also send me an
> email, if an important patch was not applied to it. In the next days I
> will fixe the fai guide, and then I plan to release it in one or two
> weeks. 
> 
> Here are the most important news:
> 
>     - make FAI ready-to-use for sarge
>     - make the examples much easier, remove a lot of unused stuff
>     - fai.conf is split into two files, make-fai-nfsroot specific
>       variables are moved to /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf
>     - make-fai-nfsroot: more packages for hardware detection included,
>       write a warning if $FAI_SOURCES_LIST is used
>     - rcS_fai: if a file /.nocolorlogo exists, do not enable colored
>       logo and let scroll region unchanged
>     - 06hwdetect.source: new call of discover2, includes now code of
>       11modules.source 
>     - task_sysinfo: show serial numbers of hard disks, show usb
>       information
>     - fai-chboot with PXE can now use localboot, so we need not copy
>       the kernel image and initrd to the install server, new option -d
>     - grub-install does not probe floppy drive (which can hang the system
>       for a long time)
>     - mkdebmirror: mirrors now woody and sarge in one directory
>